That's pretty much it...sorry for the absence lately. Because it's Lent, and I am a Roman Catholic, I have given up blogging stuff (!!!) on weekdays...unless it's for DT work or it's a feast day, so that's why it's been so quiet. Just thought I'd let you know. ;)

3.22.2011

Just stopping in quickly (again) to share a card for the Waltzingmouse Sketchchallenge - my first banner card! I've never really been interested in the whole banner thing, but had to try it out once, just so I could say I did.
Also for the ABC birthday challenge :)

3.13.2011

I apologize if the following photo hurts your eyes...my poor blue camera, barely a year and a half old, is losing its grip on picture taking. All the photos come out blurry, which means I have to use the 'sharpen' tool on Picnik to the extreme...and thus, the hardness of the photo.
So if anyone has any good suggestions for a good detail (macro) camera under $150, please let me know...I'm getting pretty desperate to find the almost perfect digital camera.
Anyways, this is made for this weeks Embellish color challenge...funny, I used to dislike color challenges, and now I just can't get enough. ;)

Some pretty Waltzingmouse Stamps, and the lovely Hero Arts music background.
Oh my gorgeousness, I just love this purple music background :)

I will be absent most of this week from blog-land as well, as there are a lot of fun things coming up soon that are keeping me pretty busy. I really have loads of cards to share, but just not the time. ;)

Thanks so much for stopping in, and I hope you have a wonderful day! :)

ETA: I just noticed how mine and Lin's cards (for the same challenge), look so alike! lol! Great minds think alike, so they say! ;)

3.08.2011

...THIS Hero Arts digi set. Soooo yummy! I was going to make a card set with a bunch of glittery hearts, but I realized I didn't have a glue pad (at the time) for my pretty glitter, and the embossing pad just wasn't gluey enough. :(

So, I went with a big shabby card, with a tiny amount of glitter that managed to stay on the heart wings...

Stamping on my little handmade posy....

More sentiment-masking. And yes, that tag is supposed to look a little messy. ;)

I also put some Glossy Accents on the tip of the pin after I pushed it through, because my mom hates the idea of the point stabbing someone, lol. ;)

Just wanted to quickly share this as I'll be taking the rest of this week off (till Saturday) from blogging. :)

3.06.2011

Just popping in to share a card that was published in the January CARDS issue...

I made this for an Embellish color challenge...makes me kinda laugh...it wasn't even one of the top six, and there it is, in a magazine. Go figure. ;)
You never know what a magazine is going to like...well, actually, there was this one card I've submitted that I was 99.9% sure would be picked up that actually was. But only one.

And then there's been some cards where I'm like "whattheheck, might as well submit it", even though I don't like it, and lo and behold! It gets picked up!

Anyways, hope you're having a nice Sunday so far - Dad's birthday is today, and youngest bro's b-day was yesterday, so we're having a nice dinner of lamb and homemade fettuccine. Mmmm!!

3.02.2011

Thanks all for the sweet comments! The computer troubles are almost resolved, though no update on the pictures.
The good thing about having to go about bookmarking blogs over again is I'm finding new ones, or ones I somehow missed before! :)

So anyways, the card...
Made for this weeks Embellish color challenge featuring birds and this months Hero Arts contest. Sorry for the poor photos - weathers been kinda odd here. Gloom and doom (no lighting whatsoever) one day, and now its all bright and sunshiny...really bright (too much lighting). I love the sun, but it's kinda making my photos all glare-ish and...yuck-ish.

See that strip of blue? Well, before stamping, I thought it looked kinda boring, so I wanted to make it look woodgrainy-ish. The sad thing? I don't have Hero Arts woodgrain stamp, or any woodgrain stamps/embossing folders. :( Boo. But then I saw the birdies tail, and just stamped that over and over again on the strip. It looked woodgrainy-ish enough to me, and I was feeling quite clever. :)
But then my Mom said (not knowing what I did) that it looked a lot like the tail. Boo again.

I love this sentiment! It actually goes "Happy Birthday", but I wanted "bird-day", so I did a bit of masking here and there. I've been obsessed lately with taking sentiments and masking them for a differently worded sentiment. Not sure why...? ;)

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